me.
That fact remained.
But now I understood something terrifying.
Grant had spent his entire life trapped inside Vivian’s lie too.
His mother wasn’t his mother.
His family grievance was fabricated.
His revenge had been manufactured.
Even his marriage had begun inside a plan he didn’t fully understand.
A week later, Rachel and I searched the house.
We found Grandma June’s secret in the last place Vivian would have expected.
An old wooden clock shaped like a maple tree had hung upstairs for as long as I could remember.
Its
